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AZ - Pinal County,1879 - Essex Mining Company Stock Certificate*Territorial* - Fenske Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
AZ - Pinal County,1879 - Essex Mining Company Stock Certificate*Territorial* - Fenske Collection
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Pioneer District. Incorporated in California in 1877. Cert. #53 issued to P.S. Swain, Trustee, for 100 shares. Signed by President A.W. Blair and Secretary E.B. Booth. Printer: A.L. Bancroft & Co., SF. Vignette at left of allegorical woman holding a banner and shield. U/C. Black border and print on white paper. Datelined San Francisco. 5 x 9 ½.” This mine was located near the famous Silver King Mine, noted for its masses of native silver and which paid out more than $1.5 million in dividends. Hinton (1878, pgs. 139-140) states, “From the work on the Silver King and the Silver Belle, it is confidently believed that the mines in the Pioneer district are true fissure veins and not merely pockets. Across the canon from Silver King camp (a village of thirty houses, stores and post office) north-west are several other mines in course of development, the ores of which assay from $100 to $500 per ton; among these are the Essex,….” No mention of the Essex is made in Burchard from 1880 on, nor in any of our other references. Blair was a lawyer in San Francisco [Ref: S.F. Dir., 1879], [Barnes, p.408].